Framer / Pricing
Framer pricing, explained: what the tool costs, and what a built site costs.
Framer itself starts free, with paid site plans and separate workspace plans once you add a custom domain, more pages, CMS or team members. But the subscription is the small number. What actually determines the cost of a Framer website is the design and the build.
Written by Urest, a Certified Framer studio. Framer is our default build platform.
The platform
What Framer itself costs.
Framer has a free tier you can build and publish on (with a Framer subdomain and Framer branding), and paid plans that unlock a custom domain, more pages, CMS capacity and higher limits. Pricing splits into two kinds of plan: site plans (priced per published site) and workspace or seat plans (priced per person editing). Both bill monthly or annually, and annual billing costs less per month.
Exact dollar figures move, so check framer.com/pricing before you quote a number. Framer publishes current pricing on its own site.
The two meters
| Plan type | Priced by | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Site plans | Per published site | Custom domain, more pages, CMS collections and items, form handling, password protection, bandwidth. A simple marketing site sits on a lower tier; a content-heavy site with a large CMS moves up. |
| Workspace / seat plans | Per editor (person) | The ability for more than one person to edit the project. A solo founder pays for one seat; a team pays per editor, independent of the site plan. |
The free tier
You can design, build and publish a Framer site without paying, which makes Framer genuinely useful for prototypes, personal pages and testing an idea in public. The catch: a free site runs on a Framer subdomain and carries Framer branding. The moment you want your own domain, you are on a paid site plan. So Framer is free for building, and not free for a real business site on your own domain.
Monthly vs annual
Every paid plan bills either monthly or annually. Annual is cheaper per month; monthly is more flexible. For a site you intend to keep, annual is the lower total. For a short campaign or a test, monthly avoids locking in.
Custom domains and CMS
A custom domain requires a paid site plan. A CMS (dynamic collections like a blog or case study library) requires a plan tier that includes CMS, and the number of collections and items you need pushes you up the tiers. A handful of static pages stays low; a content engine pays for that capacity.
The build
What a professionally designed and built Framer site costs.
Number of distinct page types
A 20-page site built from five repeating page types is a smaller job than an 8-page site where every page is bespoke. You pay to design and build the types, not to copy-paste the instances.
CMS complexity
A static brochure site is one thing. A site with several CMS collections, filtered listings, related-content logic and a large content migration is a different scale of work. The CMS is often the single biggest driver on the build side.
Content readiness
If final copy, images and brand assets exist and are signed off, the build moves fast. Waiting on content is the most common reason projects stretch.
Integrations
A plain marketing site is cheaper than one wired into a CRM, a booking system, analytics events, a newsletter platform, custom forms or a headless data source. Each integration adds design, build and testing.
Design only, or design and build
Design-only prices differently from design-and-build. Combining both in one integrated team removes the handoff, which is where cost and quality usually leak.
Custom interaction and motion
Standard Framer components are included in the platform. Bespoke animation, custom code components and non-standard interaction are craft work and they add to the build.
Because these drivers vary so widely, an honest quote comes from a short scoping conversation. A fixed package price either overcharges the simple project or underdelivers on the complex one.
The right trade
The subscription is a small line item next to design and build quality.
The Framer plan and the build are not the same order of magnitude. The subscription is a small recurring line item. The design and build is the real investment, and it is the part that decides whether the site actually works. Optimising the small number while cutting the large one is the wrong trade.
Think of it the way you would a physical space. The Framer plan is the rent on the platform: predictable, modest, ongoing. The design and build is the fit-out: the part that determines whether people who walk in understand what you do and take the action you want.
The practical takeaway: pick the Framer plan that fits your site's real needs (custom domain, page count, CMS, seats) and do not overthink it, because the difference between tiers is small money. Then spend your actual attention and budget on getting the design and build right.
Common questions
Common questions.
Partly. Framer has a genuine free tier: you can design, build and publish a site without paying. The limits are that a free site runs on a Framer subdomain rather than your own domain, it carries Framer branding, and it caps pages, CMS and bandwidth. That makes the free plan good for prototypes, personal pages and testing an idea, but not for a business site on its own domain. The moment you want a custom domain, you move to a paid site plan. So Framer is free to build on, and not free to run a real business site on. Check framer.com/pricing for current free-tier limits.
Yes, on the workspace side. Framer separates the site plan (priced per published site) from the workspace or seat cost (priced per person who can edit). A solo builder pays for one editor. A team pays per editor seat, in addition to the site plan for each published site. So there are two meters: one per site, one per editor. If cost matters, count both your sites and your editors, not just one of them. Check framer.com/pricing for current seat pricing.
Yes, and it is worth understanding why. Framer is the platform subscription: you (or the agency on your behalf) pay Framer to host and run the site, ongoing. An agency or studio is paid to design and build the site itself, usually as a project. The Framer plan is a small recurring cost you keep paying after launch. The design and build is a larger one-off investment in the site's quality. A studio like Urest builds the site inside your Framer workspace, so you keep ownership of the site and the subscription, and you are not locked to the agency to make edits later.
Framer starts free and its paid plans scale with what your site does. There are two kinds of plan: site plans, billed per published site, which unlock a custom domain, more pages and CMS capacity; and workspace or seat plans, billed per editor, for teams. Both bill monthly or annually, with annual cheaper per month. A simple marketing site sits on a lower site-plan tier; a content-heavy site with a large CMS costs more. For current dollar figures, check framer.com/pricing, because Framer updates its pricing periodically.
Start here
Pricing the Framer plan is easy. Pricing the build is a conversation.
Tell us what the site has to do and we will give you a realistic picture of scope and cost. We are a Certified Framer studio, Framer is our default platform, and we run design, build and growth as one team. If Framer is not the right platform for your project, we will say so.
Certified Framer studio. Small senior team of five, based in Poland, working with clients across Europe and the US, in 17+ countries.